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Introducing: The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma (hexbear.net)
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[–] Notcontenttobequiet@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully you can. Thinking about it now, it reminds me of one of those topics that every redditor™ who thought they were a genius talked to death 10 years ago.

[–] davel@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

I know it’s buried in one of his videos, but haven’t found it. The gist is that trolley problems are perfectly spherical frictionless cows in a vacuum. They are metaphysical, platonic ideals of dilemmas that never actually occur in the real world. They’re divorced from the uncountably large number of specifics of any real-life situation.